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April 2015
(79%)
284 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(91%)
3241 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
So thin and light that it out-MacBook-Airs the MacBook Air
Excellent Retina display. You won't even notice that it's not using its native resolution out of the box
Gray
Silver
And gold finish options look great and give the MacBook a touch of personal
It's lighter than Air! (the MacBook Air
That is)
Backlit keyboard w/ individual LEDs
Retina display is gorgeous
Crazy fast PCIebased storage
Long battery life
Sexy design
Simplicity and ultra-portability
Fanless
Noiseless operations
Tomorrow's technology today
Premium experience over price
Wonderfully light yet sturdy aluminum design
Three color options
Keyboard remarkably fast
Awesome stereo speakers
Strong battery life
The new ultraportable
Fanless design is great
Retina display finally comes to Apple's thin-and-light MacBooks
New color options
Force Touch trackpad and 256GB minimum storage space
Incredibly thin. Weighs less than 2 pounds. 14 hours of battery life in testing. Retina Display. Great-sounding speakers. Available in three colors.
Thin and light
With great battery life
Beautiful Retina display
Force Touch trackpad
The new 12inch Apple MacBook is amazingly thin and light
Has a premium look and feel
And is available in three colors. It offers better battery life than other laptops with Intel's Core M processors
And performance that's as good as or better than thos
Incredibly light
Thin
And compact
Epic battery life
Brilliant Retina display and backlit keyboard
Insanely light and gorgeous. Superb display
Great Force Touch trackpad
Ample storage and RAM
Stunning design
Superlight
Excellent battery life
Full of new technology
New Retina display is stunning
Force Touch trackpad is a technical marvel
Revised keyboard is excellent
Outstanding design and build quality
Supremely light and compact
Gorgeous 12inch Retina display
Light
And feels solid
Wonderful battery life
Bright keyboard backlight
OS X (why you buy a Mac in the first place)
Excellent integration with iOS devices
This is about as well as you can design a clamshell PC
I still don't understand how a laptop can be this light. The screen will make every Air owner jealous. If only all laptop chargers were this small
Very usable keyboard and trackpad. Silent fanless operation. Highly portable with impressive battery life.
Incredibly thin
Great keyboard
Careful build quality and very high stability
Extremely low weight as well as compact dimensions
Excellent touchpad
Bright Retina display with wide viewing angles
Good everyday performance
Decent battery runtimes
Powerful speakers
The editors didn't like
Performance is a step or two behind recent Broadwell-U Macs
In 1440×900 mode
The integrated GPU sometimes struggles to keep up with the high-res screen
Upgrades are impossible. Everything from the RAM to the SSD is soldered to the tiny motherboard
Med
Overall performance isn't on par with competitors' laptops
High-performance processors or graphics
A large number and variety of ports
Deep
Clackity keyboards
Low
Low pricing
Must use dongle to plug in most devices
Pricey
Loss of MagSafe could lead to a costly accident
No USB-C adapter
Splitter or hub in the box
Starting at $1
299
The MacBook is expensive for what it offers
Only one USB-C port
With no adapters included. USB-C is not Thunderbolt-compatible. New keyboard and Force Touch trackpad take some getting used to. Can only be upgraded at initial purchase
Weak keyboard
Single USBC port for charging and peripherals
Slow Core M processor
Single USB-C port for charging and peripherals
Its performance and battery life falls short of the MacBook Air and Pro. The new keyboard is shallow and takes some getting used to
And sharing a single port for all accessories as well as the power cord is almost immediately frustrating
USB Type-C port won't fit existing peripherals
No SD card slot or MagSafe power connector
Shallow keyboard travel takes some getting used to
Core M CPU isn't as powerful as Core i5
Lack of keyboard travel is disconcerting at first. Expensive
Limited performance
Very expensive relative to performance
Only slightly more powerful than iPad Air 2
Specific target audience
So it will not please everyone
No touchscreen. Come on
Apple
Single USB TypeC port limits desktop/office use (adapter not included)
Average processor performance (slower than expected)
Worthless 480p webcam
Expensive to the point of being hard to recommend. A little slow when you push it. The battery is just shy of being as worryfree as it wants to be. USBC isn't yet everywhere
Published: 2015-04-28, Author: Michael , review by: networkworld.com
My first impressions of this machine are quite positive, an evaluation that other Mac users obviously share. (The MacBook quickly sold out after its April 10 release and is now backordered four to six weeks.) While I'll be putting it through its paces...
My first impressions of this machine are quite positive, an evaluation that other Mac users obviously share. (The MacBook quickly sold out after its April 10 release and is now backordered four to six weeks.) While I'll be putting it through its paces ove...
Published: 2015-04-28, Author: Joe , review by: macrumors.com
Abstract: Just a few weeks after the 12-inch Retina MacBook became available to order online, a number of early adopters have shared mixed opinions about the notebook within the MacRumors discussion forums. Overall, many users agree that the new MacBook has major d...
Full of new technology, New Retina display is stunning, Force Touch trackpad is a technical marvel, Revised keyboard is excellent, Strong battery life, Outstanding design and build quality, Supremely light and compact
Only slightly more powerful than iPad Air 2, Specific target audience, so it will not please everyone
The 12-inch MacBook with Retina display is the best ultraportable notebook that Apple has ever made. Its list of technological and design firsts is giving some credence to Apple's marketing fluff that it has reinvented the notebook. It's a pretty dramatic...
Abstract: The New Macbook or 12″ Macbook, which ever name you decide to call it by is a well crafted piece of hardware from Apple, there is no doubting that. But this is a device that tries to serve to purposes and doesn't achieve one of them well. So lets talk spe...
Abstract: Haven't we been here before? Following the new MacBook's announcement last month, I was immediately taken back to the year 2008, when Apple introduced the first MacBook Air. It was so thin you could stuff it in a manila envelope; it was a neat party trick...
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Published: 2015-04-21, Author: Ryan , review by: anandtech.com
Bringing this MacBook review to a close, I'm going to start where I left off in our introduction, which was the concept of the laptop/tablet crossover. The idea of laptops and tablets crossing over is no longer merely an idea, but now it is reality. Apple...
Abstract: Early reviews of Apple's MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2015) have framed it as an expensive prototype from the future — a notebook that will someday be the standard, but one most people aren't ready for yet. Despite that classification, the new MacBook ...
Published: 2015-04-21, Author: Neil , review by: appleinsider.com
The new ultraportable, fanless design is great, Retina display finally comes to Apple's thin-and-light MacBooks, New color options, Force Touch trackpad and 256GB minimum storage space
Loss of MagSafe could lead to a costly accident, No USB-C adapter, splitter or hub in the box, Starting at $1,299, the MacBook is expensive for what it offers
When we say the MacBook is all-new, we mean it. From top to bottom, this is a reimagining of the modern notebook, with a lot of new technology introduced, and an indication of which directions Apple will head next. The MacBook is a groundbreaking achieve...
